We hopen dat het nieuwe jaar voor iedereen goed is gestart. Ons lectoraat Diversiteitvraagstukken heeft de laatste periode van 2023 zeker niet stilgezeten. In deze nieuwsbrief delen we al deze activiteiten graag met jullie. Ook kun je lezen waar we op dit moment mee bezig zijn. De afgelopen periode kenmerkte zich ook als een zeer intensieve tijd waarin de oorlog in Gaza en de verkiezingsuitslag in Nederland een grote impact hadden op de gevoelens van inclusie, zowel binnen de samenleving als binnen onze eigen hogeschool. Samen met de Taskforce Diversiteit en Inclusie en de leden van de Werkgroep Sociale Veiligheid binnen Hogeschool Inholland organiseren we als reactie op de verzoeken vanuit de hele organisatie periodiek gesprekken met het CvB waarin we het met elkaar hebben over de betekenis en impact van deze gebeurtenissen in de klas en in een team, maar ook voor individuele studenten en medewerkers. Hierover verschijnt binnenkort informatie op Iris. Als lectoraat Diversiteitvraagstukken staan we voor een inclusieve omgeving en beogen we met ons werk daarin, hoe klein wellicht ook, een bijdrage te leveren. En ik ben trots op wat we de afgelopen periode hebben gedaan. Vragen of verzoeken naar aanleiding van deze nieuwsbrief kunnen worden gestuurd naar: Machteld.deJong@inholland.nl Veel leesplezier! Namens het hele team van Diversiteitvraagstukken, Machteld de Jong We hope that the new year is off to a great start for each and every one of you. Our Diversity research group has certainly not been idle during the last term of 2023. We are pleased to share all those activities with you in this newsletter. You can read about what we are up to right now as well. The past term also turned out to be quite an intensive period, in which the war in Gaza and the election results in the Netherlands severely impacted people’s perceptions of inclusion, both in society and within our own university of applied sciences. In response to requests from the entire organisation, we are cooperating with the Diversity and Inclusion taskforce and the members of the ‘Social Safety at Inholland University of Applied Sciences’ working group to organise periodic meetings with the Executive Board, during which we will discuss the significance and impact of these events in the classroom and within our teams, but also how they affect individual students and employees. Information on this will be posted to Iris soon. Here in the Diversity research group, we are committed to being an inclusive environment and aim to contribute to this through our work, however small that contribution might be. And I am proud of what we have achieved during the past term. Any questions or requests in connection with this newsletter can be directed to Machteld.deJong@inholland.nl Happy reading! On behalf of the entire Diversity Studies team, Machteld de Jong
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Deze casestudie geeft inzicht in verschillende soorten kennis die kenmerkend zijn voor applied design research. Er wordt onderscheid gemaakt tussen kennis over de huidige situatie, over wenselijke alternatieven en over effectieve oplossingen om daar te komen. Ofwel, kennis hoe het is, kennis over hoe het kan zijn en kennis over hoe het zal zijn als we effectieve oplossingen toepassen. Elk van deze soorten kennis heeft andere kwaliteitscriteria.
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On the Open Research Amsterdam website, the Digital Production Research Group presented its main projects and achievements.--Dutch:Verbinding onderwijs, onderzoek en praktijkIn 2017 is het Robot Lab van de Hogeschool van Amsterdam (HvA) opgericht. Zij transformeren onder andere sloophout tot nieuwe meubels!In deze collectie leest u meer over het Robot Lab en de projecten en die hier worden uitgevoerd.
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Digital transformation has been recognized for its potential to contribute to sustainability goals. It requires companies to develop their Data Analytic Capability (DAC), defined as their ability to collect, manage and analyze data effectively. Despite the governmental efforts to promote digitalization, there seems to be a knowledge gap on how to proceed, with 37% of Dutch SMEs reporting a lack of knowledge, and 33% reporting a lack of support in developing DAC. Participants in the interviews that we organized preparing this proposal indicated a need for guidance on how to develop DAC within their organization given their unique context (e.g. age and experience of the workforce, presence of legacy systems, high daily workload, lack of knowledge of digitalization). While a lot of attention has been given to the technological aspects of DAC, the people, process, and organizational culture aspects are as important, requiring a comprehensive approach and thus a bundling of knowledge from different expertise. Therefore, the objective of this KIEM proposal is to identify organizational enablers and inhibitors of DAC through a series of interviews and case studies, and use these to formulate a preliminary roadmap to DAC. From a structure perspective, the objective of the KIEM proposal will be to explore and solidify the partnership between Breda University of Applied Sciences (BUas), Avans University of Applied Sciences (Avans), Logistics Community Brabant (LCB), van Berkel Logistics BV, Smink Group BV, and iValueImprovement BV. This partnership will be used to develop the preliminary roadmap and pre-test it using action methodology. The action research protocol and preliminary roadmap thereby developed in this KIEM project will form the basis for a subsequent RAAK proposal.
Due to societal developments, like the introduction of the ‘civil society’, policy stimulating longer living at home and the separation of housing and care, the housing situation of older citizens is a relevant and pressing issue for housing-, governance- and care organizations. The current situation of living with care already benefits from technological advancement. The wide application of technology especially in care homes brings the emergence of a new source of information that becomes invaluable in order to understand how the smart urban environment affects the health of older people. The goal of this proposal is to develop an approach for designing smart neighborhoods, in order to assist and engage older adults living there. This approach will be applied to a neighborhood in Aalst-Waalre which will be developed into a living lab. The research will involve: (1) Insight into social-spatial factors underlying a smart neighborhood; (2) Identifying governance and organizational context; (3) Identifying needs and preferences of the (future) inhabitant; (4) Matching needs & preferences to potential socio-techno-spatial solutions. A mixed methods approach fusing quantitative and qualitative methods towards understanding the impacts of smart environment will be investigated. After 12 months, employing several concepts of urban computing, such as pattern recognition and predictive modelling , using the focus groups from the different organizations as well as primary end-users, and exploring how physiological data can be embedded in data-driven strategies for the enhancement of active ageing in this neighborhood will result in design solutions and strategies for a more care-friendly neighborhood.
The pace of technology advancements continues to accelerate, and impacts the nature of systems solutions along with significant effects on involved stakeholders and society. Design and engineering practices with tools and perspectives, need therefore to evolve in accordance to the developments that complex, sociotechnical innovation challenges pose. There is a need for engineers and designers that can utilize fitting methods and tools to fulfill the role of a changemaker. Recognized successful practices include interdisciplinary methods that allow for effective and better contextualized participatory design approaches. However, preliminary research identified challenges in understanding what makes a specific method effective and successfully contextualized in practice, and what key competences are needed for involved designers and engineers to understand and adopt these interdisciplinary methods. In this proposal, case study research is proposed with practitioners to gain insight into what are the key enabling factors for effective interdisciplinary participatory design methods and tools in the specific context of sociotechnical innovation. The involved companies are operating at the intersection between design, technology and societal impact, employing experts who can be considered changemakers, since they are in the lead of creative processes that bring together diverse groups of stakeholders in the process of sociotechnical innovation. A methodology will be developed to capture best practices and understand what makes the deployed methods effective. This methodology and a set of design guidelines for effective interdisciplinary participatory design will be delivered. In turn this will serve as a starting point for a larger design science research project, in which an educational toolkit for effective participatory design for socio-technical innovation will be designed.
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